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TASA necessary for customer protection: accountants

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2013
... field." Ling admitted that there are still grey areas, but added that "there is an unnecessary concern" over TASA, as advisers have had three years to prepare for it.

AFA moves into broadcast to promote advice vision

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2013
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) is in the initial stages of a new broasdcast strategy to raise awareness about the importance of receiving financial advice. The AFA chief executive Brad Fox told Financial Standard that the organisation is ...

Regulation remains unclear a month out from FoFA

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUN 2013
... negotiating some of the aspects in FoFA with Treasury. The amount of unclear details could be the reason why so many advisers remain unprepared for FoFA, De Gori suggested during the FPA roadshow held today in Sydney. Some of the aspects that need to ...

Greens hold the key to TASA in Senate

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUN 2013
... the bill to be approved at today's sitting in the House of Representatives. The FPA and the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) spent the last 24 hours lobbying members of the Parliament from all parties for the bill to be delayed another six or ...

BT wins award for 'Your World' tool

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUN 2013
... Westpac and St George Financial Planners have been using Your World for the past two years. It was released to Securitor advisers earlier this year. "This award comes at a time when the enshrinement of the terms 'financial planner' and 'financial adviser' ...

FPA, AFA to lobby MPs for TASA delay

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 3 JUN 2013
... approval of tax amendments to the Tax Agents Services Act (TASA), amendments they believe will negatively affect financial advisers. The bill is scheduled to be voted upon in Parliament tomorrow, after the Labor party blocked an inquiry about the Tax ...

CleverSuper launches SMSF platform

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 3 JUN 2013
Platform provider CleverSuper is attempting to bring advisers and self-managed superannuation funds (SMSF) closer together with the launch of a new administration platform. The service is available for a monthly fee and it provides advisers and trustees ...

Government to hold public forums on Super Charter

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 3 JUN 2013
... consider regulatory burdens on other stakeholders, including, employers, superannuation funds, fund managers and financial advisers. Other key suggestions in the discussion paper were: a post-retirement adequate income of 70 per cent of pre-retirement ...

Banks shift gears on technology spend

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 3 JUN 2013
... players and there is a role for smaller players in the industry, but in terms of providing scaled service and supporting advisers, you actually need to have a strong and robust infrastructure." Financial adviser Meike Suggars from Suggars & Associates ...

Advisers' Twitter usage doubles in 18 months

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2013
Growth in social media usage by Australian financial advisers has far outstripped the growth experienced in the community overall, according to new statistics from Zurich Financial Services Australia (Zurich). Zurich general manager of life and investments ...